The great historian of early Islam, Patricia Crone, died peacefully on July 11 after a long battle with cancer. This memoir by her friend and colleague was written earlier this year for a volume of essays in her honour and links to her outstanding essay on Mohammed published by openDemocracy.
In a recent article for Foreign Policy, "Take me Back to Constantinople", Edward Luttwak suggested that America should adopt a 'Byzantine' approach to modern foreign policy. Judith Herrin welcomes this change in tone towards the much-maligned medieval power, but feels that it is perhaps too late t
Joan Burchardt, who died last July at the age of 91, never called herself a feminist yet she had a progressive, fearless attitude and an egalitarian spirit that treated men
Just in case it gets overlooked in the appreciation of Edward Said’s political focus and literary brilliance, I want to remember his love of music. It was not the
George W Bush had a pretty mixed reception during his recent tour of Europe, but in one venue he was greeted with warm applause. This was in Warsaw, where he
